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Improving access for students with disabilities
Assistant Professor Neil Simpkins explores how disabled students experience college writing and the rhetorical tactics they use to navigate higher education.
April 24, 2020
Supporting urban community gardening
Melanie Malone researches contaminants in urban community gardens, which is an important consideration as more people turn to gardening for vegetables during the coronavirus pandemic.
April 22, 2020
Robust teacher prep for indigenous studies
With spring quarter, the School of Educational Studies launched a new two-course sequence developed by Sarah Shear to train students in Since Time Immemorial, Washington state’s K-12 Native American studies curriculum.
April 8, 2020
Chocolate expert immerses herself in research
An expert from the University of Washington Bothell on the culture, economics and politics of chocolate, Kristy Leissle is currently living in West Africa to conduct field work with cocoa growers for her next book on Africa’s contributions to chocolate.
March 30, 2020
Real world intrudes on quarantine course
Stefanie Iverson Cabral teaches a course in the School of Nursing & Health Studies called Quarantine and Isolation that, ironically, will be conducted remotely this spring because of the coronavirus pandemic.
March 25, 2020
Gravitational wave science finds a home in comics
An educational comic about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has a character inspired by Joey Key, a member of the LIGO team and an assistant professor in the School of STEM.
March 10, 2020
Race, gender inequities in medical crowdfunding
New research, led by School of Nursing & Health Studies Associate Professor Nora Kenworthy, shows that medical crowdfunding campaigns on the GoFundMe online platform appeared to be heavily influenced by users' race and gender.
March 5, 2020
Zaneveld receives $940,000 NSF CAREER award
Jesse Zaneveld, an assistant professor in the School of STEM’s Division of Biological Sciences, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award worth more than $940,000 over five years to support his research in coral reef microbiology.
March 4, 2020
Alka Kurian receives Fulbright grant to Morocco
Alka Kurian, a senior lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant for five months of research in Morocco for part of her upcoming book, “Transnational Fourth Wave Feminisms: A Postcolonial Backlash.”
February 27, 2020
Researching crowdsensing in German smart city
Over the next three summers, University of Washington Bothell students will be traveling to Germany to develop crowdsensing technology at the University of Bamberg, which conducts smart city research in the Bavarian city.
February 19, 2020
My Story: The Day of Remembrance
Kyle Kinoshita, a faculty member in the Leadership Development for Educators (LEDE) program, illustrates the power of a story by telling about his mother who was among the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.
February 12, 2020
One-lake wonders facing climate change
The survival of Arctic grayling in Washington could be imperiled, says Jeff Jensen, a senior lecturer in biology, because warming temperatures affect the only stream in the state where the fish spawn.
February 12, 2020